Claire Danes and Mary Louise Parker steer clear of each other at Kennedy Center Honors

Talk about awkward! Mary Louise Parker and Claire Danes were just seats apart at Sunday's Kennedy Center Honors, which provided some additional fireworks for those nearby. You remember: Billy Crudup left longtime-girlfriend Parker -- then seven months pregnant with their son -- for Danes back in 2004. That relationship didn't last either, but the two actresses spent the night carefully avoiding eye contact and pretending the other didn't exist.

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